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Bands Sought for Competition

Release Date:
January 27, 2010
Contact:
Paula Witherell,
716-926-8792 or 716-472-1830 (cell)

HAMBURG, N.Y. – Local bands will showcase their talents in a Battle of the Bands competition at Hilbert College with the winner given the opportunity to perform for the college community at Hilbert’s annual spring Quad Party in April.

 Hilbert’s Battle of the Bands competition will take place at 7 p.m. March 5 in the college’s William E. Swan Auditorium. Prizes will be awarded.
 
Registration deadline is Feb. 23. Bands interested in participating should contact Jean MacDonald, director of student activities, at 926-8932 or e-mail jmacdonald@hilbert.edu.

Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. Hilbert’s personal approach to learning combines liberal arts with an outstanding professionally-focused education that’s taught by professors who bring a depth of real-world experience to the classroom. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities.